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20182025
most citedModel-Based Reinforcement Learning via Meta-Policy Optimization

110 citations · 168 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.LG2025

Simulation Priors for Data-Efficient Deep Learning

Lenart Treven, Bhavya Sukhija, Jonas Rothfuss +3

How do we enable AI systems to efficiently learn in the real-world? First-principles models are widely used to simulate natural systems, but often fail to capture real-world comple…

cs.LG2025

SequenceLayers: Sequence Processing and Streaming Neural Networks Made Easy

RJ Skerry-Ryan, Julian Salazar, Soroosh Mariooryad +8

We introduce a neural network layer API and library for sequence modeling, designed for easy creation of sequence models that can be executed both layer-by-layer (e.g., teacher-for…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap with Bayesian Inference

Jonas Rothfuss, Bhavya Sukhija, Lenart Treven +3

We present SIM-FSVGD for learning robot dynamics from data. As opposed to traditional methods, SIM-FSVGD leverages low-fidelity physical priors, e.g., in the form of simulators, to…

cs.LG2023

Data-Efficient Task Generalization via Probabilistic Model-based Meta Reinforcement Learning

Arjun Bhardwaj, Jonas Rothfuss, Bhavya Sukhija +4

We introduce PACOH-RL, a novel model-based Meta-Reinforcement Learning (Meta-RL) algorithm designed to efficiently adapt control policies to changing dynamics. PACOH-RL meta-learns…

cs.LG2023

Hallucinated Adversarial Control for Conservative Offline Policy Evaluation

Jonas Rothfuss, Bhavya Sukhija, Tobias Birchler +2

We study the problem of conservative off-policy evaluation (COPE) where given an offline dataset of environment interactions, collected by other agents, we seek to obtain a (tight)…

stat.ML2022★ 4 cited

Scalable PAC-Bayesian Meta-Learning via the PAC-Optimal Hyper-Posterior: From Theory to Practice

Jonas Rothfuss, Martin Josifoski, Vincent Fortuin +1

Meta-Learning aims to speed up the learning process on new tasks by acquiring useful inductive biases from datasets of related learning tasks. While, in practice, the number of rel…

stat.ML2022★ 2 cited

Instance-Dependent Generalization Bounds via Optimal Transport

Songyan Hou, Parnian Kassraie, Anastasis Kratsios +2

Existing generalization bounds fail to explain crucial factors that drive the generalization of modern neural networks. Since such bounds often hold uniformly over all parameters,…

stat.ML2022

Lifelong Bandit Optimization: No Prior and No Regret

Felix Schur, Parnian Kassraie, Jonas Rothfuss +1

Machine learning algorithms are often repeatedly applied to problems with similar structure over and over again. We focus on solving a sequence of bandit optimization tasks and dev…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

MARS: Meta-Learning as Score Matching in the Function Space

Krunoslav Lehman Pavasovic, Jonas Rothfuss, Andreas Krause

Meta-learning aims to extract useful inductive biases from a set of related datasets. In Bayesian meta-learning, this is typically achieved by constructing a prior distribution ove…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

Meta-Learning Priors for Safe Bayesian Optimization

Jonas Rothfuss, Christopher Koenig, Alisa Rupenyan +1

In robotics, optimizing controller parameters under safety constraints is an important challenge. Safe Bayesian optimization (BO) quantifies uncertainty in the objective and constr…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

BaCaDI: Bayesian Causal Discovery with Unknown Interventions

Alexander Hägele, Jonas Rothfuss, Lars Lorch +3

Inferring causal structures from experimentation is a central task in many domains. For example, in biology, recent advances allow us to obtain single-cell expression data under mu…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Amortized Inference for Causal Structure Learning

Lars Lorch, Scott Sussex, Jonas Rothfuss +2

Inferring causal structure poses a combinatorial search problem that typically involves evaluating structures with a score or independence test. The resulting search is costly, and…

stat.ML2022

Meta-Learning Hypothesis Spaces for Sequential Decision-making

Parnian Kassraie, Jonas Rothfuss, Andreas Krause

Obtaining reliable, adaptive confidence sets for prediction functions (hypotheses) is a central challenge in sequential decision-making tasks, such as bandits and model-based reinf…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

Variational Causal Networks: Approximate Bayesian Inference over Causal Structures

Yashas Annadani, Jonas Rothfuss, Alexandre Lacoste +4

Learning the causal structure that underlies data is a crucial step towards robust real-world decision making. The majority of existing work in causal inference focuses on determin…

cs.LG2021

Meta-Learning Reliable Priors in the Function Space

Jonas Rothfuss, Dominique Heyn, Jinfan Chen +1

When data are scarce meta-learning can improve a learner's accuracy by harnessing previous experience from related learning tasks. However, existing methods have unreliable uncerta…

cs.LG2021

DiBS: Differentiable Bayesian Structure Learning

Lars Lorch, Jonas Rothfuss, Bernhard Schölkopf +1

Bayesian structure learning allows inferring Bayesian network structure from data while reasoning about the epistemic uncertainty -- a key element towards enabling active causal di…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

Robustness to Pruning Predicts Generalization in Deep Neural Networks

Lorenz Kuhn, Clare Lyle, Aidan N. Gomez +2

Existing generalization measures that aim to capture a model's simplicity based on parameter counts or norms fail to explain generalization in overparameterized deep neural network…

stat.ML2020

PACOH: Bayes-Optimal Meta-Learning with PAC-Guarantees

Jonas Rothfuss, Vincent Fortuin, Martin Josifoski +1

Meta-learning can successfully acquire useful inductive biases from data. Yet, its generalization properties to unseen learning tasks are poorly understood. Particularly if the num…

stat.ML2019

Noise Regularization for Conditional Density Estimation

Jonas Rothfuss, Fabio Ferreira, Simon Boehm +4

Modelling statistical relationships beyond the conditional mean is crucial in many settings. Conditional density estimation (CDE) aims to learn the full conditional probability den…

stat.ML2019★ 6 cited

Conditional Density Estimation with Neural Networks: Best Practices and Benchmarks

Jonas Rothfuss, Fabio Ferreira, Simon Walther +1

Given a set of empirical observations, conditional density estimation aims to capture the statistical relationship between a conditional variable and a dependent varia…

cs.LG2018★ 8 cited

ProMP: Proximal Meta-Policy Search

Jonas Rothfuss, Dennis Lee, Ignasi Clavera +2

Credit assignment in Meta-reinforcement learning (Meta-RL) is still poorly understood. Existing methods either neglect credit assignment to pre-adaptation behavior or implement it…

cs.LG2018★ 110 cited

Model-Based Reinforcement Learning via Meta-Policy Optimization

Ignasi Clavera, Jonas Rothfuss, John Schulman +3

Model-based reinforcement learning approaches carry the promise of being data efficient. However, due to challenges in learning dynamics models that sufficiently match the real-wor…

cs.AI2018

Deep Episodic Memory: Encoding, Recalling, and Predicting Episodic Experiences for Robot Action Execution

Jonas Rothfuss, Fabio Ferreira, Eren Erdal Aksoy +2

We present a novel deep neural network architecture for representing robot experiences in an episodic-like memory which facilitates encoding, recalling, and predicting action exper…